this actually has nothing to do with mario brothers, and everything to do with how ridiculous your mind starts to get when you read and watch a lot of high fantasy set in medieval type realms.  I literally googled “beasts of old” and then realized how ridiculous it is to use that phrase in a google search bar.  it might as well of been “beasts of yore” or “how to bleed bad blood with leaches”.  In any case, i felt super old yesterday when I made reference to printing stuff off of the internet, and one of my youth gave me a puzzled look.  people don’t need to print off the internet anymore.  Also:  Nintendo!  take responsibility!  don’t train our youngins to run to plumbers for help with supernatural phenomena.  plumbers don’t fight dinosaurs.  beasts of old..